Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> >   The only other alternative is that it performs memory defragmentation
> > before freeing the objects. 

> No. It usually performs memory defragmentation as a concurrent part of 
> freeing the objects.

  If it performs memory defragmentation, that means that memory does get
fragmented (and thus need the defragmentation in the first place). Your
original claim was that there's *no* fragmentation at all and that's why
freeing a group of objects is faster.

> > But that doesn't sound any faster than
> > freeing the objects directly. 

> It depends on the ratio of freed objects to retained objects. If you 
> retain only 2% of the objects you created since the last GC, it's a net win.

  So it's faster only under certain conditions, not all?

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